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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Scrapilicious!

Are you loving the Bloggers` Quilt Festival (BQF)? I am and have seen the most incredible quilts and found the most amazing blogs. So far, there are over 350 quilts! If you haven`t been over there, you must and put in one of your quilts by linking up. You`ll have lovely visitors come knocking at your blog door and they`ll even leave a comment.

So inspired by some gorgeous scrappy quilts I saw at the BQF, I made this month`s block for the Bloggers` BOM QAL. This month, it`s designed by Vicki Welsh of Field Trips in Fiber. Here it is, made from incredibly good value FQ scrap packs I ordered from M is for Make.

I really like this star and am very happy with the scrappiness and the colours I used. I recently `fessed up on a flikr thread that I hadn`t always been a star girl but was in the process of being converted to them and was picked up on this by the queen of stars herself. Just look at this star which she not only designed but made herself. Incredible!

So as I had decided to go scrappy, I redid last month`s block and it`s a good job I did looking at some of those points! Here it is - again made with those scrap packs and some Parisville. Much better points.

I much prefer the scrappy one. So here are Blocks 1 and 2 nestled together.

Blogger turned it round. Silly Blogger.

The blocks are quite small coming in at 8 inches finished so I`ll have to make 2 of each or I`ll end up with a very small quilt. I`m really enjoying this QAL as it is a relaxed pace and I`m making blocks I wouldn`t normally try.

The only other sewing news is that the Red City quilt is basted and waiting to be quilted. I`m all caught up with the Duo QAL. Yea!

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About Me

Originally from the UK, I now live in the beautiful city of Marrakech, Morocco along with my wonderful husband and gorgeous but cheeky 5 year old son. When not helping to run our riad in the medina (old town), I'm discovering a passion for quilting, I'm a keen amateur photographer, I love cooking and enjoy making jewelry using semi-precious stones and silver.